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<h1 align=center style='text-align:center'>User Assistance Proposed Features
for Eclipse 3.5</h1>

<p>By Chris Goldthorpe, IBM </p>

<h2>Background</h2>

<p>All of the feature requests for Eclipse 3.5 can be found in Bugzilla. Below is a summary of the planned new features
together with a link to the corresponding Bugzilla
entry which contains more information. </p>

<h3>Milestone 2</h3>

<p><a
href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=241871">Bug 241871 &#8211;
[Help][Index] Help &gt; Index should open keyword
index in help system</a>. In Eclipse 3.4 Help/Index and Help/Search both open
the help view. A new preference which can also be set
as a plugin customization allow these to open in the
external help browser.</p>



<p><a
href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=144514">Bug 144514 &#8211;
[Help][Context] Add a preference or mechanism to make
links from dynamic help open in a separate window</a>. In Eclipse 3.4 a
preference allowed links from the help view to open in the help view or in an
editor. A third alternative has been added which is to open in the external
help browser.</p>



<p><a
href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=241869">Bug 241869 &#8211;
[Help] Customizable options for nav tree ordering</a>
Adds a customization option to disable alphabetic sorting of books in the table
of contents,</p>



<p><a
href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=179360">Bug 179360 &#8211;
[Help][Context] add option to collapse dynamic help
section</a> The related topics page of the help view will be laid out
differently in Eclipse 3.5 so that the links defined in the help context file
are displayed prominently and the dynamic help section is hidden by default and
replaced by a hyperlink which can initiate a search for related topics. </p>

<h3>Milestone 3</h3>



<p><a
href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=231064">Bug 231064 &#8211;
[Intro] Welcome Page - Accessibility - Problems with fonts</a>. The issue here
is that the font sizes in Welcome are fixed and may not be readable by someone
with impaired vision. Intro will be updated to support scalable welcome themes,
toolbar buttons will be added to increase/decrease the font size if the theme
is scalable, and the Circles and PurpleMesh themes will
be updated to be scalable.</p>

<h3>Milestone 4</h3>



<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27343">Bug
27343 &#8211; [Help] TOC tag does not support icon=&quot;Myimage.gif&quot;</a>
This is a longstanding request to allow topics and books in the Toc to have non
standard icons. </p>

<h3>Milestone 5</h3>



<p><a
href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=220992">Bug 220992 &#8211;
[Help] No API to plug-in a non-Jetty web server for Help sub-system</a>. &nbsp;Currently the Eclipse help system is hard
coded to use the Jetty web server. This would allow alternate servers to be
used instead.</p>



<p><a
href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=204465">Bug 204465 &#8211;
[server] Allow Jetty to start a second web application in the same configured
port</a> This is an Equinox bug but may require work in User Assistance.</p>


<h3>Milestone 6</h3>

<p><a
href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=146237">Bug 146237 &#8211;
[Intro] TVT3.2:Welcome page layout problem</a> As of
Eclipse 3.4 Intro does not render well in right to left languages. Correcting
this requires changes in intro itself to generate different html and to allow
easy inclusion of different css if the language is
right to left.</p>



<p><a
href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=246645">Bug 246645 &#8211;
[Webapp] Smaller/customizable font for displaying infocenter topics</a> Allow the user to increase/decrease
the font size in the infocenter and the help browser .</p>

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